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Democratic governor's desk. this comes after the governor reached a deal with republican leadership last night. one democratic source is telling me it will come down to the wire. critics are saying this isn't really a repeal at all. it's actually a repeal in name only, because the state will have final say as to multistall bathrooms. secondly, the replacement bill prohibits other cities from issuing their own non-disdiscrimination ordinances until 2020. there's a lot of economic pressure playing a role here. for one, the state of north carolina is estimated to lose 3.7 billion in lost business...

Law. $4 billion could have been lost in the course of a decade right outside of the house chambers right now, what do we expect from that vote today and why now in terms of this repeal? >> peter, the house here is discussing the replacement bill, house bill 142 that replaces hb 2 after it easily passed the senate. i was just in there and it was facing a heated debate. especially because you mentioned you have house members saying they're in favor of repeals hb2 but they're not if favor of the replacement bill. one congressman said there was no lbgt people on the discussion table when this repl...

Discussing this. the debate has been heated. some of the things that some of the lawmakers were opposing or were saying in there. one said, we're pushing a rush bill that nobody knows the ramifications of. several house members, craig, said, the bill is on the floor today because the ncaa says it is, making reference to the fact that the push to repeal hb2 is coinciding to the fact that the ncaa is deciding where they will hold the next events during the next five years, and then finally another house member said, you know, it's time to move past this. i don't think we're going to get this cha...

Simultaneous but i wanted to two separate bills. some of the things may or may not be allowed by a bill. democrats will support it. democrats won't support replacement, the onus is on them to curry the heavy burden of obamacare. one of the biggest things to transfer on the marketplace is letting large groups buy insurance with one negotiator. if aarp could have one negotiator, my guess is the insurance companies would come on bended knee and give us something good for a cheap price. that's what i want, more leverage for the consumer. that may require a separate replacement bill. >> neil: senat...

Work with us on achieving goals the white house wants. >> neil: was that the white house way to say let's talk. congressman, what did you think of that? >> i don't have much of a reaction to it quite frankly. politics makes strange bed fellows. when you're trying to pursue an idea, you cultivate people with agreement with that idea. this battle that we just finished with was a huge battle between free enterprise on the one hand and socialism on the other. i don't support socialized medicine. i know you don't support it. yet this was a giant stride, this replacement bill was a giant stride in f...